Old Koreelah

I am looking for a route from the eastern side of teh Range to the western side.OME

I don't understand the problem, OME.

The Liverpool Range is the divide, and a direct line from Scone to Qurindi airport is as good a route as you will find.

 

I'd avoid following the N.E. Highway, because it follows some rugged country and just east of Murrurundi the whole valley is full of very expensive racehorses.

 

A forced landing there might test out the capacity of the RAAus public liability insurance!

 

 

I haven't done too much flying east of the divide, but the trip from the central coast via YCNK and YSCN is nice.

 

I cross the Liverpool Range at the Cedar Brush, a low point directly between YSCN and YQDI. You probably need to skirt around the Tamworth steps; the western side seems to have much more landable country. You can track over YQDI to about Breeza then swing north to go around the steps and climb up high as you pass over Keepit Dam, where there are several strips.

 

It's dead straight over Inverell, with a couple of strips to choose from. There is some Yowie country around Pindari Dam and again north of the Border, but if you stay high you are always within gliding range of either a strip or some reasonable farmland. A beaut trip which I flew last November.

 

Enjoy your trip, Warwick has some nice people.

 

 

Crikey, 80, wot hav I started?

 

 

Camping under wing in microtent. Flying down early to find non-swampy site!

 

 

Your musings are interesting, Bones. Plenty of designers have pondered the same issues. Many aircraft have an adjustable tailplane (as well as a movable elevator) to allow what you are talking about. Lowering the angle of incidence of the tailplane a few degrees allows the wing AoAttack to increase a few degrees. But. The mechanism required has to be dead reliable, it adds weight (not a big issue with heavy transports, where economies of scale apply) and also increases the workload on the pilot. I once forgot to retract my air brake when I had to do a go-around, and couldn't understand why she was climbing so slowly. Add turbulance, a heavy load or engine issues and you could be in a pickle.

 

Some small planes, such as most of the Jodels, have an all-flying tailplane which seems to allow a much bigger range of wing AoA.

 

 

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This sitting position might delay the onset of back pain, but the glide slope looks a bit steep!

 

 

Ive got adifferent problem, anything over about 40 minutes plats hell with my back and there is not much room for improving the seating, so it is little and often, rather than long trips. A low cost plane helps financially.

Sorry to hear of your back pain issues, Yenn. I have had similar problems in the past, aggravated by hours sitting in crumby car seats. I have never had any back pain when riding the bike, even on a 5K trip home from Darwin. Sitting slightly forward, as you would on a horse, seems to be a big part of the solution. I've even seen a few horse-saddles mounted as office chairs for the same reason.

 

I wonder how we could incorporate this idea into our planes?

 

 

He was so close to completeing all 25 missions. He would have been pretty pissed off I reckon. On the flip side, getting that much back pay would have been a bonus.

Dazza a bloke from my home town (just over the mts. from Boonah) spent much of WWII as a POW of the Nazis. He somehow survived serious wounds, European winters and slaving in Silesian coal mines, then escaped and joined Czech partisans. One thing that kept him going was the prospect of receiving his backpay after release, so that he could come home, buy a property and become a beef grower.

 

After the war the Army would not pay him and the RSL was no help either, so he was one returned man who never supported the RSL after that. Through sheer hard work he went on to become a well-respected and very successful cattleman- I doubt he ever played a pokie or got any sort of handout in his life.

 

 

One memorable experiences was yonks ago in a Blanik. A large hawk entered "my" thermal and, conforming to good airmanship, was turning in the same direction. He started just forward of and above my RH wing tip and very slowly rode this wave along the length of the wings, just missing my canopy. I felt I could reach out and touch him.

 

 

Welcome aboard, mate. You have good company in the Wentworth area; a mate of mine there has a beaut little Jodel D9.

 

Lyle Passfield

 

 

The problems my generation suffered aged 19 or 21... pimples, saving up to buy any old motorcycle, shortage of cash for fuel, getting to meet girls... These blokes had a slightly different experience of late adolescence!

 

Thanks rgmwa for a fascinating and understated reminder. Amid the doom and gloom and media fixations on the obscenely unimportant, how lucky we are.

 

Lyle

 

 

U.S. Air Force Buys 18,000 Apple iPads to Replace Flight Bags.

Great news for weight-saving in the cockpit, but pretty soon I'll be missing the feel of a good old paper map...

 

 

http://www.msf-usa.org/motion.html

 

Thanks for this link, Thruster. Amazing what our eyes can- and cannot - see. Perhaps resources like this could be collected and added to a special web site for training pilots. I know from training in aerial search techniques that there is an awful lot more to vision than we think. All pilots (and perhaps road users as well) should be made aware of the limitation of their eyesight, especially when distracted by other tasks such as using a phone.

 

 

One bathroom scale will be enough for my plane since it only weighs 65kg , but only if I can get it to balance on one wheel.

Solomon, you might be able to use kitchen scales!

 

 

you farmers have it too easy!

I'm no farmer, FT, just a lowly salary earner (ie taxpayer).

 

 

Hey all ,, I've finally come to that point where I need to do the weight and balance. I was hoping for some feedback on the types of scales one uses for this mission and how other people have gone about it. cheers in advance ..

Brett I too used a trio of cheap bathroom scales, but the results were unreliable. You need to "tap" the scales before you step on- that makes it a little difficult- you have to have a team to roll the plane on after you tap each scale. I also found considerable variations in the reading with analog scales.

Then I heard about cattle scales. Most livestock farmers will have a set of good-quality digital scales. They're robust and built for heavy, uncooperative loads, with a pair of long sensors you can place under the main wheels. My neighbour was very helpful and I got a very accurate reading for each wheel. He got the dust and spider's webs cleaned out of his scales and I even made him up a new box to carry them in.

 

Regards,

 

Lyle

 

 

Hi All,Does anyone know anything about Aerovee engines, the prices are great but why do people shy away from this type of engine.

I would like to hear for & against

 

Pete

My 2 bob's worth, Pete, is that the VW is a loveable engine and relatively inexpensive, and I hear that Aerovee's version is good. Unfortunately, you get what you pay for. I spent a few thousand on a VW for my little plane but after years of work and expense found that it was just too heavy. I had to replace it with a Jabiru, which is far lighter and more powerful. I still have a perfectly food 1600 VW engine if you want it, but few fliers seem to use them any more.

Regards,

 

Lyle

 

 

Just mentioned the name 'Woodenbong' to the missus (she's ex-LA)...her reply was "Is that an aboriginal name ?".......................Maj...

Yep, MM, it's a white-fella bastardisation of a name used by the local Kithabal people in the their Banjalung language.

 

 

Woodenbong is just down the road from Boonah.I have flown around there heaps of times.Also done dirt bike riding out of there (and Kyogle).Nice part of Australia.

Hello dazza, you're right. I long ago predicted that Woody might one day be Brisbane's Katoomba, but the atrocious roads preclude that.

As Wayne said, It sure is Yowie country, but I dream of one day being able to fly among the peaks and visit Boonah. Most Jodels have good STOL qualities, but I added so many improvements to mine that the weight increase has made short landings a little difficult.

 

Regards,

 

Lyle

 

 

Hear hear, David... So please tell me Lyle, when you go visiting Kin in Woodenbong, where do you park the little beast? I looked and looked, but danged if I could find an ALA within a bull's roar of the place.

There are some flat paddocks a mile west of town, used by GA craft occasionally over the years, especially when I was a pup in the 1950's. Although I've not seen an aircraft there, my dad saw a Tiger Moth there once. It had been upended by the wind; a few blokes just turned it over again and its was flown away. I have postponed flying to Woody until I greatly improve my short field performance: there is a lot of yowie country around there!

 

 

Last year I had the chance to travel interstate for a family gathering.

 

Getting all the siblings together had been a rare achievement, but the long drive put me off- long hours sitting in a car causes back problems. I fluked some good weather and chose to fly instead, but was worried about leaving my little beast unattended at a strange airfield.

 

A phone call to their Aero Club solved the problem. Despite being a complete stranger, I was offered the use of a hanger overnight, and told where to find the key. I had the thrill of flying my little plane to the venue, cutting travel time to a third. My plane was tucked away safe and sound while we had a great family re-union.

 

I had a great flight each way and even received a phone call from my unseen hosts when I got home.

 

Thanks Graham, a wonderful gesture to a fellow flyer.

 

 

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Welcome, Craig. Its awesome to seen so many riders of proper motorcycles represented on this forum. Must be a good percentage of all the Guzzis in Oz!

My wife has one of the first V-50's in this country and I have a nice Lario V-65. I toyed with the idea of using a Guzzi engine in my plane, and found that at least one brand of military drone used a pair of V-75 engines. Unfortunately, after lots of research, it looks like any car or bike engine would need a PSRU and that would make the weight greater than the likes of a Jabiru.

 

Regards,

 

Lyle

 

 

looks like it. Have a look at the manual for the Vertex VXA-150 (available on the Yaesu site here). The circuit in that that include an external ptt include the resistor (see pg 30).All you really need to do is solder the resistor onto one leg of the switch, then the wire for that leg to the other end of the resistor.

You can get 8 of the resistors from jaycar (here) for about 46 cents.

Thanks sain. Your efforts are appreciated. I have downloaded all relevant info (after negotiating some unwanted good luck-I won an iPhone 4s and they wouldn't take no for an answer; I had to quit Safari to get the persistent buggers off my computer.)

 

I have manuals, both paper and pdf, related sites, multimeter, headset, PTT assembly and radio all laid out on the desk. I have used the tester to find which wires are connected to which part of the plug and jack. Now I have to concentrate and figure all this out!

 

 

Thanks Virago and matto! The link should give me enough to go on. You learn lots when you design and build houses, bikes, planes... but electronic is one area I have always shied away from. It's time I learned a little.

 

 

LyleNormally the PTT is just 2 wires that get shorted together by the switch the second set could be a parallel set going to another ptt switch somewhere do all 4 wire go to the same place?

 

Mark

Thanks for the reply, Mark, but short of cutting open the connectors I don't know where the wires go.